Exodus 23:6

Exodus chapter 23 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause.

King James Version · 1611

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

American Standard Version · 1901

Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause.

v.5If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release it with him.

v.6This passage

v.7Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed be he that wresteth the justice due to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there are higher than they.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Amos 5:11
Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
Job 31:13
If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;
Deuteronomy 16:19
Thou shalt not wrest justice: thou shalt not respect persons; neither shalt thou take a bribe; for a bribe doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.